264 



MARKET RATES FOR TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 



(From Lewis it- Peat's Monthly Prices Current, London, 17th August, 1910,) 



ALOES, Socotrine cwt. 



Zanzibar & Hepatic „ 

 ARROWROOT (Natal) lb. 

 BEES' WAX, cwt. 

 Zanzibar Yellow „ 

 Bombaf bleached „ 

 „ unbleached „ 

 Madagascar ,, 

 CAMPHOR, Japan 



China „ 

 CARDAMOMS, Tuticorin 



Tellielierry 



Mangalore ,, 

 Ceylon. Wjsore „ 

 Malabar „ 

 Seeds, E. I, & Ceylon „ 

 Ceylon Long Wild „ 

 CAb'l'OR OIL, Calcutta,, 

 CHILLIES, Zanzibar cwt. 

 CINCHONA BARK.- lb. 

 Ceylon 



QUALITY. 



CINNAMON, Ceylon lata 

 per lb, and? 



3rds 

 4ths 

 Chips, &c. 

 CLOVES, Penang lb. 

 Amboyna 

 Ceylon 

 Zanzibar 

 Stems 



COFFEE 



Ceylon Plantation cwt. 

 Native 



Liberian ,, 

 COCOA, Ceylon Plant. ,, 



Native Estate ,, 

 Java and Celebes „ 

 COLOMliO HOOT „ 

 CROTON SEELS, sift. cwt. 

 (JUBEBS 



GINGER, Bengal, rough,, 

 Calicut, Cut A „ 

 B& C ,, 



Cochin Rougb „ 



Japan ,, 

 aUM AMMONIACUM ,, 

 ANIMI, Zanzibar 



Madagascar 



»RaBIC E. I. ft Aden 



Turkey sorts 



Ghatti 



Kurrachee 



Madras 

 ASSAFCETILA 



KINO 



MYRRH, Aden sorts cwt 

 Somali ,, 

 OLIBANUM, drop 



pickings ,, 

 sittings ,, 

 INDIA RUBBER lb. , 



Ceylon, Straits, J 

 Malay Straits, etc, I 



Assam 



Rangoon 



Fair to fine . 



Common to good . , 



Fair to fine 



Slightly drossy to fair .., 



Fair to go i d 



Dark to good genuine . . 



Dark to Rood palish 



Refined 



Fair average quality ... 

 Go r d to iine bold 

 Middling lean 

 Good to hue bold 

 BroTvnish 



Med brown to fair bold 



Small fair t» fine plump 



Fair to good 



Fair to good 



Shelly to good 



Good 2nds 



Dull to hue bright 



Crown, Renewed 



Org. Stem 

 Red Org. Stem 



Renewed 

 Root 



Good to fine quill 



Fair to fine bold 

 Dull to tine bright pkd. 

 Dull to fine 



Fair and fine bright 

 Fair 



Medium to bold 

 Good ordinary 

 Fair to bold 

 Special Marks 

 Red to good 

 Ordinary to red 

 Small to good red 

 Middling to good 

 Dull to fair 

 Ord. stalky to good 

 Fair 



Small to fine bold 

 Small and medium 

 Common to fine bold 

 Small and D's 

 Unsplit 



Sm. blocky to fair clean 

 Pale and amber, -dr. arts. 



,, ,, little red 



Bean and Pea size ditto 

 Fair to g od red sorts 

 Med. & bold glassy sotts 

 Fair to good palish 



,, „ red 

 Ordinary to good pale 



Sorts to fine pale 

 Reddish to good pale .. 

 Dark to fine pale 

 Clean fr. to gd. almond 

 com. stony to go id block 

 Fair to tine bright 

 Middling to good 



Good to fine white 

 Middling to fair 

 Low to good pale 

 Slightly foul to fine 

 Fine Para bis. & sheets 



„ Ceara „ „ 

 Crepe ordinary to fine. . 

 Fine Block 

 Scrap fair to fine 

 Plantation 



Fair II to ord. red No. 1 



QUOTATIONS 



80s a 85s 

 40s a 70s 

 8d a 9d 



£61?s6d a £6 16s 

 £7 716 a £7 12s 6d 

 £5 1' s a £6 5s 

 £0 los a £7 

 Is 6d a Is 7id 

 1453 



•is a 2s fid 

 Is 9d a Is lOd 

 2s 3d a 2s 6d 

 Is 6d a 23 

 2s a 2s lid 

 Is 3d a 2s lOd 

 is 3d a Is 4d 

 Is 8d a Is 9d 

 (id a Is 7d 

 3Jd a 3^d 

 40s a 45 s 



3fd a 7d 

 2d a 6d 

 Ud a 4id 

 3d a 5id 

 lid a 4d 

 Oidals 5d 

 o|d a 1 s 4d 

 5d a Is 

 4£d a 8jd 

 2Jd a 3d 

 Is 5da Is 8d 

 9il a lOd 

 9d a lOd 

 5Jd a Od 

 2d 



65s a 100s 

 nom inal 

 43s a 55s 

 71s a 75s 

 6Bs a 70s 

 37s a 64s 

 30s a 8' s 

 45s a 50s 

 45s a fOs 

 200s a 220s 

 40s nom. 

 65s a 85s 

 55s a 60s 

 45s a 50s 

 45s a 47s t'd 

 38s a 41s 

 35s a 67s 6d 

 £15 a £16 

 £12 a £14 

 75s a £12 10s 

 £8 a £10 

 £6 a £i 

 £4 a £8 15s 

 £4 a £7 10s 

 ;5s a 32s ed 

 32s 6d a 52s 6d 

 20s a 42s 6d nom. 

 20s a 30s 

 1 5s a 25s 



£18 15s a £21 10s 

 15s a £8 

 9d a Is 3d 

 55s a 6?s 6d 

 50s a 60s 

 45s a 60s 

 35s a 40s 

 10s a 26s 

 16s a 20s 

 7s ltd 



New Guinea 

 INDIGO, E.I. Bengal 



MACE, Bombay & Penang 

 per lb. 



Java 

 Bombay 

 MYRABOLANES, cwt 

 Bombay ,, 



Benj 

 NUTMEGS — 



NUTS, ARECA 

 NUX VOMICA, 

 per c vt. 



73 



7s 10s a 8s 2d 

 8s 4d 



5s 8d a 6s Id 

 5s 9d 



4s lOd a 5a 3d 

 3s a 4s 3d 



IN DIARUBB ER.(Contd.) 

 Borneo 

 Java 

 Penang 

 M ozambique 



Nyassaland 

 Madagascar 



QUALITY. 



al 



It.. 



Singapore & Penang , 



cwt. 

 Cochin 

 Bengal 



Madras 



OIL OF ANISEED „ 

 CASSIA „ 

 LEMONGRASS 

 NUTMEG 

 CINNAMON 

 CITRON ELLE 

 ORCHELLA WEED— cwt 

 Ceylon „ 

 Madagascar „ 

 PEPPER— (Black) lb. 

 Alleppy & Tellicherry 

 Ceylon ,, 

 Singapore 

 Acheen & W. C. Penang 

 (White) Singapore „ 

 Siam ,, 

 Penang ,, 

 Muntok „ 

 RHUB\RB, Shenzi 

 Canton 

 High Dried.. 



VGO, Pearl, large 



medium .. 

 small .. 

 SEEDLAC cwt 

 SENNA, Tinnevelly lb. 



SHELLS, M. o'PEARL — 

 Egyptian cwt. 

 Bombay ,, 

 Mergui ,, 

 Manilla ,, 

 Banda ,, 

 TAMARINDS, Calcutta... 



per cwt. Madras 

 TOR TOISESHELL— 

 Zanzibar, & Bombay lb. 



TURMERIC, Bengal cwt. 



M adras 



Do. 

 Cochin 



Common to good 

 Good to fine red 

 Low white to prime red 

 Fair to fine red ball 

 Sausage, fair to good 

 Fair to fine ball 

 Fr to fine pinky & white 

 Majunga & blk coated . . 

 Niggers, low to good . . 

 Ordinary to fine ball .. 

 Shipping mid to gd violet 

 Consuming mid. to gd. 

 Ordinary to middling 

 Oudes Middlingto fine 

 Mid. to good Kurpah 

 Low to ordinary 

 Mid. to fine Madras 

 Pale reddish to fine j 

 Ordinary to fair 



„ ,, good pale 

 Wild 



UG and Coconada 

 Jubblepore 

 Bhimlies 

 Rhajpore, &c. 

 Calcutta 

 64's to 57's 

 80's 

 110's 



Ordinary to fair fresh 

 Ordinary to good 



QUOTATIONS. 



Fair merchantable 

 According to analysis 

 Good flavour & colour 

 Uingy to white 

 Ordinary to fair sweet 

 Bright iii good flavour 



Mid. to tine not woody- 

 Fair 



Fair 



,, t o fine bold heavy . 



Fair 



Dull to fine 

 Fair to fine 



Fair 



Fair 



Fair 



Ordinary to good 

 Ordinary to good 

 Fair to fine flat 

 Dark to fair round 

 Dull to fine 



V ANILLOES— 



Mauritius 



Madagasca 



Seychelles 

 VERMILLluX 

 WAX, Japan, squares 



lb. 



... 1 Ists 

 ... > 2nds 

 J Srds 



Ordinary to gd. soluble 

 Good to fine, bold green 

 Fair greenish 

 Commonspeckyand small 



Small to bold 



Fair to good 

 Sorts 



Mid. to fine bl'k not stony 

 Stony and inferior 



Small to bold 

 Pickings 

 Fair 



Finger fair to dne bold 

 Bulbs [bright 

 Finger 

 Bulbs 



Gd crystallized 3i a.8j in 

 Foxy & reddish 34 a „ 

 Lean .^nd inferior 

 Fine, pure, bright 

 Good white bard 



2s 4d a 3s 8d 

 3s6da4s9d 

 2s 3d a 4s 

 (is 3d a 6s 9d 

 6s a 6s 6d 

 Is a 5s 6d 

 Is 3d a 4s 9d 

 3s a 3s 6d 

 Is 3d a 3s 3d 

 ts 3d a 4s 3d 

 2s lOd a 3s 8d 

 2s 6d a 2s lOd 

 2s 2d a 2d 5d 

 2s 6d a 2/8 nom. 

 2s 2d a 2s 6d 

 13 6d a 2s 

 Is 5d a 2s 4d 

 Is lid a 2s 4d 

 Is 8d a Is lOd 

 Is 7d a 2s 

 3Jd a 4d 

 5s a 5s od 

 4s 10 '.d a 6s 

 5s a 6s 3d 

 4s 9d a 5s 6d 

 5s 6d a 6d 

 Is a Is 6d 

 7jd a 8d 

 4jd a 5d 

 15s a 16s 

 8s a9d 

 6s 3d a 6s 6d 

 6s 3d a 7s 6a 

 4s 6'd 

 3s 3d a 3s 7d 

 2jd 



Ud a l|d 

 2d a Is 4d 

 ll|d 



8sal0s 

 10s 



4d 



3|d a 4Jd 

 4d 



3jd a 33d 

 7Jd a 8d 



?d 

 6Jd 

 7 id 



is 2d a 2s 6d 



a laid 

 9Jda lid 

 5d a 6jd 

 22s a 24s 

 18s a 20s 

 17s a 20s 

 52s 6d a 72s ed 

 Ud a7d 

 2id a 4Jd 

 Ljda2id 



30s a 1353 

 28s a 135s 

 £U5/a£912/6 

 £7 a £11 63 

 ■.is a 303 nom 

 Us a 12b Oil 

 Is a 5s 



7« a 30s 

 - , a 22s 

 I8s 



22s a Z4s 

 17s a 18s 

 18s 

 13s 



13s a lSs 

 lis a 14s 

 10s a Us 



3s 2d 



4is ed 



